{"id":13443,"date":"2020-05-11T06:10:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T00:54:29","slug":"phonology-circle-5-11-anton-kukhto-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/05\/11\/phonology-circle-5-11-anton-kukhto-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 5\/11 - Anton Kukhto (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Speaker<\/b>:\u00a0Anton Kukhto (MIT)<\/div>\n<div><b>Title<\/b>: Accent in Uspanteko (Bennett &amp; Henderson 2013)<\/div>\n<div><b>Time<\/b>: Monday, May 11th, 5:00-6:30pm<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Abstract<\/b>:<\/div>\n<div>We will discuss a 2013 paper by Ryan Bennett and Robert Henderson, &#8220;Accent in Uspanteko&#8221; (NLLT\u00a031). Within the K&#8217;ichean\u00a0branch of Mayan languages, Uspanteko is unique in having a contrastive pitch accent, which\u00a0interacts with non-contrastive stress. Bennett and Henderson provide a foot-based analysis of this interaction that derives the observed pattern of default final stress and tone-triggered stress shift. These patterns, as the authors themselves note, can easily be described in non-metrical terms, yet there seems to be robust evidence for feet in the language. This sort of evidence will be central in our discussion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Anton Kukhto (MIT) Title: Accent in Uspanteko (Bennett &amp; Henderson 2013) Time: Monday, May 11th, 5:00-6:30pm \u00a0 Abstract: We will discuss a 2013 paper by Ryan Bennett and Robert Henderson, &#8220;Accent in Uspanteko&#8221; (NLLT\u00a031). Within the K&#8217;ichean\u00a0branch of Mayan languages, Uspanteko is unique in having a contrastive pitch accent, which\u00a0interacts with non-contrastive stress. Bennett and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13444,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions\/13444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}